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The Manila Critics Circle

By Isagani Cruz | November 25, 2015 - 9:00am

Next week, the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board (NBDB) will give the 34th National Book Awards at appropriate ceremonies in the National Museum.

Education and Home

Paintings by Trix, new poetry by Cirilo

By Alfred A. Yuson | March 9, 2015 - 12:00am

My former partner-in-crime for a weekly television show on arts and culture, Beatrix Syjuco, gained another milestone in her...

Arts and Culture

A poet speaks

By Butch Dalisay | September 9, 2013 - 12:00am

Now 72, Cirilo F. Bautista towers over the writers of his generation.

Arts and Culture

Taboan 2013

By Isagani Cruz | February 14, 2013 - 12:00am

I was invited to join National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, keynote speaker Resil B. Mojares, and Leoncio Deriada in a panel entitled “Your Place at the Writers’ Table” during the opening ceremonies...

Education and Home

Good & bad news in global awards

By Bibsy M. Carballo | December 26, 2012 - 12:00am

We hear of this group of youngsters insistent on renaming the National Artists Award, or totally discontinuing it. It appears...

Entertainment

Nick Joaquin and De La Salle U. live on!

By Alfred A. Yuson | July 18, 2011 - 12:00am

On July 6, a significant book launch was held at Powerbooks in Greenbelt 4 in Makati.

Arts and Culture

A world of readers

By Danton Remoto | December 29, 2008 - 12:00am

"Read to lead” is a soundbite that we hear more often these days. Happily for us, the National Book Development Board (NBDB), the government agency tasked with doing this, is working hard and fast to make...

Arts and Culture

Two plays, a book, a journal

By Alfred A. Yuson | August 2, 2004 - 12:00am

The tickets may cost arms and legs, but it’s a sure treat, taking in the Metropolitan Theater Guild’s lavish and entirely entertaining production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Carlos P. Romulo...

Arts and Culture

Eminent Israeli poet meets Filipino peers / Letter from Germany

By SUNDRY STROKES | August 16, 2003 - 12:00am

It is both amazing and admirable that a country as beleaguered as Israel puts culture on top of its priorities. The Embassy of Israel, now headed by Charge d’ Affaires Roi Dvir, has announced that the eminent...

Opinion

Hail be to love!

By Alfred A. Yuson | January 28, 2002 - 12:00am

The Valentine’s Week schedule for a group of Singaporean poets, writers and publishers has been finalized. It’s the second straight year that such a delegation comes over to Manila for a week of literary...

Arts and Culture